Today, the world of data is changing faster than ever.

SQL Server 2019: Gain industry-leading performance and security over all your data.

You need a data platform that keeps up with the changing world – SQL Server. The continual innovations built into SQL Server can give you a higher return on your investments, challenging the status quo of relational databases by making it possible to ingest, manage, store, and analyze any type of data from anywhere.

Intelligence over any data. Set AI and machine learning to monitor your data with the power of SQL and Apache Spark. Using SQL, you can remove data silos, manage both structured and unstructured data, and bring unified deployment, governance, and tooling to your advanced analytics.Choice of any platform, language, and container. Run SQL Server on any platform, any dev language of your choice. The robust language support (T-SQL, Java, C/C++, PHP, Node.js, C#/VB.NET, Python, Ruby) lets developers choose how to build apps their way.

The Challenge

SQL Server 2019 Overview + Benefits

95% 1.7MB250+ 156 MillionMicrosoft SQL Server 2019 Solution

Solution Snapshot

of businesses today need to manage unstructured data1

of data is created every second for every person on earth3

popular programming languages exist with their own communities and tools2

Sensitive data leaks in 20204

Industry-leading performance. Automate database management tasks with intelligent database capabilities and tune performance with intelligent query processing feature while providing mission-critical performance. SQL optimized for Intel® technologies delivers optimal Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) performance without relying on high core count processors. • SQL licensing is core-based, so a high-

performing Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with fewer cores can help manage licensing costs while optimizing performance and value.

• Paired with Intel® Optane™ SSDs, SQL even supports write-intensive environments to provide the performance required to achieve a high transactions-per-minute speed for OLTP.

Insights in minutes on any device. Gain access to rich interactive Microsoft Power BI reports to explore visual data and quickly discover patterns. Let users view reporting across Apple iOS, Android, and Windows mobile platforms—online or offline. SQL tuned and optimized for the latest Intel® technology provides significant performance benefits to help ensure enterprises receive their required insights without any delays.• Support your growing business needs with

the new 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Platform and realize up to 1.53x more OLTP database transactions on Microsoft SQL Server compared to prior generation.5

• Up to 1.41x faster performance for Online Analytical Processing workloads running with SQL Server 2019 on the new 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Platform compared to prior generation.6

SQL Server On-Premises

SQL Serverin the Cloud

1 Forbes, Big Data Goes Big, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rkulkarni/2019/02/07/big-data-goes-big/#1b570e8720d7

2 Dzone, The Big List of 256 Programming Languages, https://dzone.com/articles/big-list-256-programming

3 DOMO, Data Never Sleeps 6, https://www.domo.com/solution/data-never-sleeps-6

4 Statista, Annual Number of Data Breaches and Exposed Records in the US from 2005-2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/273550/data-breaches-recorded-in-the-united-states-by-number-of-breaches-and-records-exposed/

5 Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Geomean of (MySQL, Server Side Java, WordPress). See [82] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config

6 Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Geomean of (MySQL, Server Side Java, WordPress). See [79] at www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config

7 Tested by Intel as of 3/12/2021.1 Node, 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6348 CPU, 1x Intel® Server Board M50CYP,Total Memory: 512GB (16 x 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 RDIMM), Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology: Enable, Turbo: Enabled, Storage(boot): 1 x Intel® SSD D3-S4510 Series (480GB, 2.5in SATA 6Gb/s, 3D2, TLC), Storage (Data Drive): 6x Intel® SSD DC P5510 Series (3.8TB) (NVMe), Storage (Log Drive): 2 x Intel® SSD DC P5800X 400GB (NVMe) [RAID 1], Network devices: 1x Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550, Network speed: 10 GbE, OS/Software: Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition build 17763 with SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition RTM CU9. Throughput for OLTP workloads: 2.07 M NOPM; Average query response time @Scale Factor 1000 & 7 users for DSS workloads: 6.92 mins.

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. Intel technologies may require enabled hardware,

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SQL running on Intel is your fast path to data platform transformation with workload-optimized configurations available through the Intel® Select Solution program. These solutions can deliver proven performance and the ability to scale by running on the Intel® platform. Visit intel.com/selectsolutions for more information and a list of data center solution providers.

What if you want to deploy SQL in the cloud? Choosing the right cloud instance is important to ensure you can meet the analytical demands of your business. Intel’s commitment to partnering with cloud service providers (CSP) means that selecting a database instance in the CSP of your choice delivers optimized performance without any special tuning. For example, performance findings suggest the Microsoft Azure Eds_v4 instances can complete data warehouse workloads anywhere from 1.32 to 1.54 times as fast as the Microsoft Azure Es_v3 virtual machines. Yet, all sizes and specifications of the Eds_v4 VMs, powered by 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors, cost just 1.17 times more than the Es_v3 virtual machines. By investing in Eds_v4 instances as opposed to Es_v3 instances, you could be getting better performance for your money.

At similar core counts, the new Intel® Select Solution for SQL Server delivers up to 10% better performance and up to 57% faster query response time on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® processors versus the prior generation.7

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What are Intel® Select Solutions?Predefined, workload optimized solutions designed to minimize the challenges of infrastructure evaluation and deployment. These solutions have been tested and optimized to deliver minimum performance levels.

Cloud Instance Test Findings + Recommendations for SQL• Amazon Web Services• Google Cloud• Microsoft Azure

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Intel® Select Solutions for SQL Server